Eddie Stijkel

Eddie Stijkel (1978)

Eildert Geurt "Eddie" Stijkel (born November 17, 1918 in Arnhem , † October 1, 1982 in Bilthoven , Utrecht province ) was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD).

Life

Eildert Geurt "Eddie" Stijkel completed a degree in economics and was a government advisor after the Second World War and as such in 1950 was responsible for the negotiations around 1950 that led to the establishment of the European Payments Union (EPU). He was also an advisor to Pieter Oud , the then chairman of the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD). However, he did not succeed in preventing him from taking a stance on Dutch New Guinea in 1951 , which led to a government crisis. He was subsequently Director General of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM).

Eddie Stijkel then took on the post of State Secretary for Transport in the Ministry of Transport and Waterstaat on October 15, 1959 in the De Quay cabinet (Staatssecretaris van Verkeer en Waterstaat, rounded met vervoersaangelegenheden) and held this position until July 24, 1963. As State Secretary for Transport, he was responsible for international road, water, rail and air transport matters and, from 1960, also for national transport matters, including matters relating to the Dutch railways ( Nederlandse Spoorwegen ) . In this capacity, he led negotiations with the United States over the landing rights of airline KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on the West Coast of the United States. However, the negotiations failed in January 1960. In 1963 he represented the cabinet in parliament ( States General ) in the agreements on the Ems Dollart region and the Rhine question in the bill for the approval of the treaty with Germany . In 1963, together with the Minister for Social Affairs and Health Gerard Veldkamp and Defense Minister Sim Visser, he laid down the Dangerous Substances Act (Wet gevaarlijke stoffen) , which regulates the transport, packaging, delivery, storage and disposal of dangerous substances such as chemicals, Contains ammunition, explosives and chemicals. In addition, in 1963 he presented the law on the transport of coal and steel at freight prices (Wet vrachtprijzen vervoer van kolen en staal) , with Article 70 of the ECSC Treaty on the obligation to publish tariffs for the transport of coal and steel in the six Member States was implemented to allow free competition.

In 1963, Stijkel was on the draft of the VVD list of candidates for the Second Chamber of the States General (Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal) as the planned spokesman for European affairs, but withdrew due to a dispute with the main board of the VVD about a passage in the election program about the Dutch attitude towards France back. He then became chairman of the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion in 1963 for his services . At the same time, he was a member of the board of NV Bruynzeel Fabrieken in Zaandam between June 1, 1964 and October 1, 1967 and then from October 1, 1967 to June 1, 1972 a member of the board of the Nederlandse Dagblad Unie (NDU) publishing house .

Web link

• EG (Eddie) Stijkel . In: Parlament.com (Dutch)